Excerpt from The Peddler’s Boy: Or, “I’ll Be Somebody,”
Jones; but I think he will forgive us, though, for taking such a liberty with his good name, should he ever happen to come across this story, and should it prove to him a sort Of looking-glass, in which he can see his own features. When he was a lad, about twelve years Old, his father, who had been pos sessed of a handsome property, failed in business, and as Samuel says, became as poor as a church mouse. What would have taken taken place if Samu el’s father had been successful in his.
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